Litfin is so eager to minimize the legitimacy of LGBT people's claims to legal and civil equality that he starts from an "activist judges" narrative that fails to grasp even a Schoolhouse Rock-level understanding of how government works. In Litfin's telling, the "judicial branch" just suddenly decided one day to start legislating from the bench -- "pressing hard" to create new "controversial" rights for LGBT people. That's not how courts work.
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